I don't- I don't have anything to say.
Chapter cover- Deandra blushing like crazy with Mercury staring at her clueless.
Ch.11- A useless succubus
Another day, another round of Ms. Goodwitch's combat class, this one is interesting, it's Ruby versus Issia. The thing is that no one can tell how Issia fights against humans.
"You may start whenever you're both ready." Ms. Goodwitch tells them. Ruby ready herself and Issia summons her weapon but instead of her normal weapon, she pulls out twin daggers. Everyone is confused about the sudden weapon change expect for her sisters.
"Remember what I said during the food fight? My bow isn't the only weapon I know how to use." Issia says to Ruby, juggling one of her daggers in her hand.
"Let's not keep the crowd waiting," Issia tells Ruby taking a combat stance and Ruby does the same, they stare down at each other to see who will make the first move. Ruby is the first to move, she fires a shot near Issia's foot from Crescent Rose.
Issia holds out her hand and catches the shot, Issia retaliates by dashing in front of Ruby and barraging her with a series of fast strikes from her daggers, Ruby runs away to get some space but Issia sticks to her.
"How is Issia managing to keep up with Ruby?" Yang asks puzzled with how Issia is managing to keep up with Ruby's speed.
"I should mention, that Issia went through a lot of training to make herself faster, she's actually the fastest of all of us, and her strength is nothing to laugh at," Deandra mentions to Yang.
"She might be the weakest of us in terms of raw strength, but she makes up for it with speed and aggression," Ersa adds.
"Issia is a much better fighter than I first thought." Ruby mentally notes as she takes shot after shot at Issia, but can't seem hit her. Issia tosses her daggers in the air and quickly summons her bow, while Ruby's eyes are focused on the daggers, firing an arrow at Crescent Rose when the arrow hits, Ruby starts to spaz and twitch in place, while lightening surges through her.
"I coated my arrows with lightning dust." Issia tells Ruby, she puts away her bow and catches her daggers, Ruby catches Issia's eye flash with murderous intent as she walks up to her, trying to regain control over her body. Issia summons her time clones, going in for the kill. Issia and her clones criss-cross each other, and slash from all angles, ending it with one final passing attack causing Issia to once become whole.
"Issia that's enough." Ms. Goodwitch walks in to call the match, "I urge you to be more conscious." She points to the screen, revealing that Issia depleted Ruby's aura to zero.
"Sorry, I guess I'm so used to fighting my sisters, that I forget to hold back sometimes." Issia explains, smirking at the accident before helping Ruby up to her feet.
"Ruby, you're a great fighter who has a lot of natural skill, but rely too much on your instinct and you lack actual training," Issia tells to Ruby.
In the belchers, Indigo captured the whole fight on her scroll, "This will provide some helpful information to our operations." She says to Cinder.
A few days later in team CIME's dorm
"Mercury, I have something planned for you." Cinder informs Mercury, who jumps out of his bed.
"Who do you need me to do?" Mercury asks before doing a few practice kicks.
"I don't need you to fight, I need you to seduce Deandra." Cinder tells Mercury, "If you can get close to her, then we can find out how to take them down." Mercury looks at Cinder, confused since he has never tried to seduce someone.
"Alright, I'll figure it as I go." Mercury goes to pull out his scroll and call Deandra, but Cinder catches him.
"Do not fall for her...or her magic." Cinder warns Mercury, reminding him who the Holdbacks truly are.
"Got it." Mercury walks off and goes searching for Deandra, after an hour, he finds her in the library sitting down at a table reading some history books.
"Hey!" Mercury slams his hand down on the table to get Deandra's attention, she slowly lowers her book to see who interrupting her reading.
"Mercury." Deandra slips a finger between the page she was reading and puts the book to the side.
"If you were someone else then I'd be annoyed, but since it's you I'll make an exception." Deandra waits to hear what Mercury wants from her, not showing any signs of embarrassment like when she was showing him around.
"Yeah, how about you and me get out of here, and do...something fun," Mercury tells Deandra, who's now smiling.
"If that's your idea of asking me on a date, then you have the wrong idea about who I am. I'm not some girl who'll fold that easily, convince me why I should go on a date with you." Deandra retorts before scroll starts buzzing, "I'm needed by my sisters, until next time we meet." Deandra then gets up and opens a portal.
"That girl is making this a thousand times harder than it should be," Mercury mutters to himself.
Deandra pokes her head out her portal, "By the way Mercury, whoever gave you those pick-up lines, shoot or burn them, because that was the worst attempt I've ever seen." before pulling her head back in.
In Team RWBY's dorm
Deandra walks through her portal and face-to-face with team RWBY, "What's wrong?" she asks to see what happening.
"It seems our friends were planning a little mission without us," Ersa informs Deandra.
"We're coming with you and that's final." Deandra tells team RWBY, "It's always better if things go south and you have someone there to back you up."
"Alright, then be ready because tomorrow, we're heading out." Ruby says, "Now we need to hatch a plan."
The next day
There's only one minute until Mr. Port's class is over before we can enact our plan, Jaune is trying his ask Weiss on a date but isn't getting an answer. The bell rings and we pack up, Jaune tries to get his answer only to get utterly rejected, he throws his head on his desk in defeat.
"You tried." Ersa tries to give Jaune some praise and a pat on the back but he probably can't hear her. We swap out of our school clothes and into some alternate clothes.
Deandra now has her cloak open and she's wearing, a dark violet dress hugging her body and chest showing a bit of cleavage going down to her legs leaving little to the imagination. For her shoes, Deandra chose light blue heels.
Ersa wearing the White Fang uniform, a white sleeveless jacket, a sleeveless black hood and black pants, black fingerless gloves, metal foot guards and boots. The logo is prominently displayed on the back of the uniform. Three red claw marks can be seen on the top left of their jackets. Some have their Faunus traits, such as ears or antlers, visible along with their uniform.
Medi wearing a light green jacket zipped all the way up, with silver pants and a chain wrapped around her like a belt, the sides have a yellow streak going down them in the shape of a lightning bolt.
Issia is wearing a black flowy dress, she has her hair tied in a ponytail held together by a white scrunchie. Her shoes have been swapped out with white high heel boots.
"Let's see if Ruby and the girls are ready," Deandra says to her team and then they go to RWBY's dorm.
"You girls ready?" Deandra asks RWBY spotting a look at their new clothes.
Ruby is wearing a long-sleeved, light gray shirt with black belt cuffs near the ends of the sleeves. Over the top of the gray shirt is a black pinafore with two vertical lines of red stitching that resemble the lacing of a corset. She is wearing a red skirt with a large black-colored print of her rose emblem on the side of it, with the inside of the skirt being black. She still has on the same pitch-black stockings, but with a different pair of black-and-red boots. A few pieces of metal arranged in an abstract shape are attached to her sleeve on her left shoulder, probably as a spaulder. Finally, she is wearing her usual red cape, but with a scarf as part of the hood.
For Weiss, she is wearing a pure white dress with black edging and two columns of four black buttons on the abdomen. Her snowflake emblem is printed on her back like her bolero jacket but in pale blue instead of white. The inside of the skirt portion of the dress contains black frills, and she is also wearing thigh-high, white high-heel boots with frilly black thigh-high stockings coming up slightly above her the top of her boots.
As for Blake, she is wearing a white v-neck zip-up shirt that is black along the bottom and has mid-length sleeves. Her belladonna flower emblem is printed in off-white on the left side of her shirt. She is wearing black pants that have a vertical gray stripe on the outer side of each leg, and she is wearing a black belt with them. Attached to the inner side of the belt is a black, somewhat curved banner-like piece of fabric that hangs from the back and extends forward to her hips. On the underside of this is a thinner, longer, similarly shaped purple piece of fabric. Her black high-heel boots come halfway up her calves and have a pair of belted straps across them. Finally, she is still wearing her black ribbons on her arms and her black bow over her cat ears.
For Yang, she is wearing a collared cream top over a black shirt, and over top of the former is a black article of clothing consisting of a raised collar, a strap across her collar bone, and mid-length sleeves that are gold at the end. Around her neck is a pendant that has a smooth, round, purple gem set in a round piece of metal that has a point coming off the left and right sides and a small oval shape coming from the bottom. She has a pair of crooked black belts with gold accents across her hips, and a purple piece of fabric with lilac lace around the edges hanging from her left hip. She has a dark-gray article of clothing coming down from under her cream top that is either a miniskirt or part of her black shirt. It has vertical belted straps going down into her thigh-high black stockings, which have her burning heart emblem printed in yellow on the outer side of each leg near the top and a row of four gold pyramid studs above each knee. She's wearing a pair of black boots with a series of belted straps across them. Finally, on the back of each boot at the top is a large white ribbon tied into a bow.
"Wow, you girls really dressed for the mission," Yang exclaims seeing what Team DEMI is wearing.
"It's best we dress the part or we might look out of place," Medi explains.
"Right, everyone remembers their roles?" Ruby asks.
"You and I will head to the CCT to check the Schnee records for any other dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem," Weiss says, hand on her chest and confidence reeking from her posture.
Blake places her hands behind her back, "The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what their planning," she says.
Yang crosses her arms, "I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows EVERYTHING going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be TOO hard," Yang says.
"I'll be heading with Yang since my charm doesn't involve punching people in the face," Deandra explains her part.
"Me and Issia will be coming with you Ruby," Medi says with Issia nodding.
"And I'm going with Blake, disguised as a member of the White Fang," Ersa explains her part.
"Great!" Ruby exclaims getting to be with her best friend.
"Right. We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. Let's do this!" she pumps her right fist up in the air.
"Yeah!" an unknown voice is heard. we look over to the source of the voice and see Sun Wukong hanging upside down by his tail, outside the window, smiling. We take a step back.
"Sun?!" Blake yells, shocked at his appearance.
"How did you get up there?" Yang asks.
"Oh, it's easy. I do it all the time," he answers.
"You do WHAT?!" Weiss shrieks.
"I climb trees all the time," Sun quickly answers, ignoring her scowl at him before he flips into the room and onto his feet.
"So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?" he asks.
"We are going to investigate the situation, as our own TWO TEAMS," Blake emphasizes their positions.
"Sorry, but this party is invitation only," Ersa jokes.
"Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to," Ruby points out.
"Psst, that's dumb. You should always get friends involved. That's why I brought Neptune," Sun says, pointing his thumb behind him. We poke our head outside the window to see Neptune standing on the ledge outside their room.
"Sup," he greets us nonchalantly.
"How did you even get up here?" Ruby asks.
"I have my ways," Neptune replies, before he sees how high up they are. "Seriously though, can I come in? We're, like, really high up right now," he fearfully pleads.
With Neptune now in the room, we change up our plans a little bit.
"Alright, I'll go with Weiss, Medi, and Issia. Sun, you can go with Blake. And Neptune, you can go with Yang and Deandra, because I don't know who else you could go with." Ruby says while pushing Neptune who is still frozen from being on the ledge, but he winks at Weiss as he is pushed by her.
"Actually Ruby, why don't you go with Yang, heh? After all, she is your sister," Weiss suggests.
"And probably end up somewhere someone her age shouldn't be at? Brilliant idea," Deandra sarcastically mutters.
"But Weiss, who would go with you then?" Ruby asks while Yang stops Neptune from rocking back in forth as he is still frozen with fear.
"Well, I guess Neptune could come with me," Weiss says, to which Neptune gives a thumbs-up sign...
Ruby snorts and laughs, "Nah," she rejects the suggestion and then starts walking out the room while pulling Weiss by the back of her dress.
"But! But!" Weiss pleads, reaching out to Neptune in vain.
"We better get going, time is of the essence," Deandra tells us.
Writer: Sorry for such the big delay for this chapter, I was just dealing with some other things but everything should be fine now.